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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

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New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The bear hunt, set to take place from Dec. Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. That really sucks. It's a cull to "control the population."

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Marchesi Biscardo – Corvina della Provincia di Verona (2017)

10,000 Birds

Even the United States Forest Service got in on the act with this image that was apparently created as educational material for children (though I don’t envision any crows or ravens supplanting Smokey Bear in the marketing department for that agency).

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Black Bear

Animal Person

  Black Bear. But for the first time, I was indifferent to my education, and life’s too short for apathy.   Enter Black Bear Crestfallen, I schlepped my sorry self from my minuscule apartment, across the Village Green toward the coffee shop. If I could have shot the poor bear on the spot, I would have.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. So: what do you do if your six-year-old finds a baby bunny, and she can’t bear to part with him? Today is the final commentary day. That is, until … you get the picture.

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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To insure that those places continue to exist, birders should lead the way on education and advocacy regarding the Refuge System. The System also protects bison , bighorn sheep , panthers , elk , grizzly bears , manatees , and ocelots , among others. The reason is twofold, size and mission. It’s not just for the birds.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Her career path decisions are almost startling in their honesty; this is an area that is seldom, at least to my knowledge, written about formally, beyond Twitter threads and the occasional Chronicle of Higher Education article.

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